Studies on the Greek Reflexive—Herodotus

Abstract

Commenting on Thucydides I, 136: ναγκáζεται… παρ' αδμητον τòν Μολοσσѿν βασιλέα, ὅντα α ὐ τ ᾦ οὐ ϕλον, καταλσαι, Shilleto once wrote b : ‘After some thought I have acquiesced in αὐτᾦ , i.e. in Latin, qui ei (or ipsi) erat inimicus . Still inimicum suum would be as natural. In Latin MSS., as sui ( suus ) cannot be con-founded with is ( ipse ), a Critic of course more or less sees his way. But in Greek, as far as my experience goes, we are in a labyrinth without a clue.’